PowerToys Introduces Grab And Move

Move and resize windows by holding a modifier key (Alt or ⊞ Win) and dragging anywhere inside the window.

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PowerToys has introduced a new module in PowerToys 0.99.0 called Grab And Move. It allows you to move and resize windows by holding a modifier key (Alt or ⊞ Win) and dragging anywhere inside the window. Left-click drag moves the window, right-click drag resizes it from the nearest edge or corner—no need to aim for the title bar or thin window borders.

This is a great new module, especially with large monitors, or multi monitor setups.

Check it out here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/grab-and-move

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Excellent! Thanks for this pelaird. On the other matter of speeding up W11, etc. Neowin published an MS leak.

 

However, still no target date...so it might be December.

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

The resize half is the part worth having. Aiming at a window border is the one mouse action Windows has never made comfortable, and dragging from anywhere inside the window skips it.

What I would check before committing is the modifier. Alt is already claimed inside plenty of applications, so a global drag that only sometimes reaches the window underneath is worse than not having it at all. Win key for me.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Alt is not an odd pick, it is what Linux desktops have bound this to for years. It collides on Windows because Alt is the menu key here, so anything with a menu bar has first claim on it.

Win dodges that one, but either way you are laying a global gesture over applications that never agreed to it, so you are picking which ones break rather than stopping it. I would not use either, because if windows are landing wrong often enough to want a drag shortcut, that is a layout problem and I would rather fix where they open.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

FYI - You can always use the keyboard short cut "Alt + Space + M" and then move the window with the arrow keys.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

That one I did not know, thank you. It also sidesteps what I was complaining about entirely, because the system menu already belongs to the window, so nothing is being laid over anything.

It is slow, mind, and I would still only reach for it when a window has opened somewhere I cannot get at it. Which is about once a month, and is why I keep coming back to where they open rather than how to shift them afterwards.